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Michigan Wolverines football
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The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history, Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, Michigan has won or shared 42 league titles, and, since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936, has finished in the top 10 a total of 37 times. The Wolverines claim 11 national championships, most recently that of the 1997 squad voted atop the final AP Poll. From 1900 to 1989, Michigan was led by a series of nine head coaches, Fielding H. Fritz Crisler brought his winged helmet from Princeton University in 1938 and led the 1947 Wolverines to a national title and Michigans second Rose Bowl win. Bo Schembechler coached the team for 21 seasons in which he won 13 Big Ten titles and 194 games, a program record. Following Schembechlers retirement, the program was coached by two of his assistants, Gary Moeller and then Lloyd Carr, who maintained the programs overall success over the next 18 years. However, the programs fortunes declined under the two coaches, Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke, who were both fired after relatively short tenures. Following Hokes dismissal, Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh on December 30,2014, Harbaugh is a former quarterback of the team, having played for Michigan between 1982 and 1986 under Schembechler. The Michigan Wolverines have featured 78 players that have garnered consensus selection to the College Football All-America Team, Three Wolverines have won the Heisman Trophy, Tom Harmon in 1940, Desmond Howard in 1991, and Charles Woodson in 1997. Gerald Ford, who would become the 38th President of the United States. On May 30,1879, Michigan played its first intercollegiate game against Racine College at White Stocking Park in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune called it the first rugby-football game to be played west of the Alleghenies, midway through the first inning, Irving Kane Pond scored the first touchdown for Michigan. According to Will Perrys history of Michigan football, the crowd responded to Ponds plays with cheers of Pond Forever, in 1881, Michigan played against Harvard in Boston. The game that marked the birth of inter-sectional football, on their way to a game in Chicago in 1887, Michigan players stopped in South Bend, Indiana and introduced football to students at the University of Notre Dame. A November 23 contest marked the inception of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program, in 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell, which was the first time in collegiate football history that a western school defeated an established power from the east. By 1898 Amos Alonzo Stagg was fast at work at turning the University of Chicago football program into a powerhouse. Before the final game of the 1898 season, Chicago was 9–1–1 and Michigan was 9–0, Michigan won, 12–11, capturing the programs first conference championship in a game that inspired The Victors, which later became the schools fight song
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William J. Olcott
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William James Olcott was an American football player and mining and railroad executive in the Mesabi Range. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1881 to 1883 and was captain of the 1882 and 1883 teams, after receiving his degree, he worked in the iron ore mining industry for more than 40 years. He was president of the Oliver Iron Mining Company from 1909 to 1928 and president of the Duluth, Missabe, Olcott was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1862, the son of Harlow and Elizabeth Olcott. He moved with his family to Michigans Upper Peninsula and attended school in Marquette and he subsequently attended the University of Michigan where he studied chemistry and mining. He played on the Michigan Wolverines football team, was the starting back from 1881 to 1883. Olcott graduated from Michigan in 1884, after receiving his degree, Olcott returned to Michigans Upper Peninsula, where he worked in the mining business. In 1885, he was employed as an assistant engineer to the Chapin Mine on the Menominee Range, in 1890, he was reported to be living in Ironwood, Michigan, and working as an assistant superintendent of five mines at a salary of $3,600. Olcott later moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where he lived for three decades and he became superintendent of the Lake Superior Consolidated Mines on the Mesabi Range. In 1897, he was appointed first vice president of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway and he served as the railroads president from 1901 to 1909. In 1905, Olcott was promoted to the position of president of the Oliver Iron Mining Company. In 1909, he was appointed as the companys president, the Oliver Iron Mining Company was at the time the subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation responsible for the companys iron ore mining operations. He testified in 1913 in a government suit seeking to break up the steel company, Olcott had 40,000 men working for him and reported directly to John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller and his family stayed at the Olcotts home in 1928, on December 26,1887, Olcott married Fannie Bailey of Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1904, Olcott and his wife built a 10,000 square foot Georgian Colonial mansion for their family in Duluth, the house was built at a cost of $140,000 and had an estate covering five city blocks surrounded by a brick and wrought iron wall. The Olcotts had two daughters who they raised in the house, the Olcott family donated the house to Duluth Teachers College in 1939, where it housed a music school. In 1925, Olcott and his wife established the Olcott Lodge, at the time, a newspaper account noted, The lodge itself is a charming place, and the surroundings of lake and forest attractive and restful. The Olcotts not only have caused the beautiful lodge to be built and completely furnished and equipped, in 1931, the camp was turned over to the Girl Scouts and has been operated since that time as the Fannie Bailey Olcott Girl Scout Camp. Olcott retired as president of the Oliver Iron Mining Co. in 1928 and traveled extensively in the seven years following his retirement, including a year in Europe and trips to Florida and California
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1884 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1884 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled a 2–0 record and outscored its opponents by a score of 36 to 10. The team captain was Horace Greely Prettyman, Prettyman played a record eight years on the Michigan Wolverines football team between 1882 and 1890. The teams manager and starting center was Henry Killilea, Killilea was one of the five men who founded baseballs American League as a major league in 1899. He also owned the Boston Red Sox from 1903 until 1904, quarterback Thomas H. McNeil went on to become the 30th Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. In early October 1884, The Michigan Argonaut wrote that looked good for Michigans rugby team. The Argonaut noted that students were gathering daily at the northeast corner of campus to practice for the fall games. The football team was managed by the universitys Rugby Association, Henry Killilea was appointed as the manager. At a meeting held on the Tuesday before the Chicago game, in late October and early November, The Chronicle urged every student who takes an interest in Rugby to participate in the scrub or practice games or to try their hand at umpiring. Several lines above the notice about the game, the introduction of a new technology was rumored. During the first week of November, the Albion College team invited the Michigan eleven to play a game at Albion on November 7, the team was unable to accept the invitation because the required permission from the faculty could not be secured. The Chronicle expressed its hope that a game with Albion could be arranged, such a game was arranged for the following week in Ann Arbor. The 1884 football team played its first game on November 15,1884, the game was the first meeting between the two programs. As Albion was the other college in Michigan at that time with a football program. The two programs played 16 games between 1884 and 1905, with Michigan winning 15 of those games, Michigan won the inaugural game by a score of 18–0 in a match that was limited to a single inning. Michigans 18 points were scored on three goals, the Chronicle wrote, The Albion team was only recently organized, but nevertheless did some good playing. They proved themselves a set of fellows, and expressed their satisfaction at the treatment received. The game was played at the Ann Arbor Fairgrounds and was part of annual field day
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Carleton Knights football
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The Carleton Knights football team represents Carleton College in the sport of American football. Carleton hosted the only NCAA-sponsored metric football game in 1977, the game was dubbed the Liter Bowl and was measured in meters instead of yards. Carleton lost the game to St. Olaf College by a score of 43-0, the event was the last to fill Carletons Laird Stadium
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